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D'oh! ;-) The most important news in the last weeks probably was moving libmp4v2 from FAAD2 to the FAAC folder in the currently available snapshots on Audiocoding.com and in the CVS. So FAAC doesn't need an installed FAAD2 anymore if it is compiled with MP4 writing and tagging support. Yes, FAAC can do that on its own now, thanks to Dan and Case... Volker Fischer adapted FAAC to Digital Radio Mondiale, i.e. it works as an AAC LC encoder in his DReaM receiver/transmitter software now. There are still things to straighten out like the frame length, but these test transmissions can be decoded by the official DRM receiver from FhG/Merlin, too. There's a new FAAC project summary on Freshmeat.net with many links to existing ports and packages as well as other applications using either FAAC or FAAD2: http://freshmeat.net/projects/faac/ And Audiocoding.com has been added to the Open Directory Project on dmoz.org, too, which serves as a database for many important search engines, e.g. Google, Yahoo, AOL and others. The Winamp and CoolEdit output plugins by Antonio Foranna have been updated quite often recently (MP4 tagging and importing tags from input files), and he'll probably be an official project member soon. By the way, the currently available compiles on RareWares need the external id3lib.dll in your system directory, otherwise they won't show up in Winamp's output plugins folder. CoolEdit even quits with an error message at the start. Sad news was that knik quit developing FAAC after bringing it to its current competitive state which was proven in the last AAC comparison from 2004 on http://www.rjamorim.com/test/aac128v2/results.html So if someone out there feels like tuning the only available open source AAC encoder, go ahead... Hans-Juergen (Oct 17, 2004) P.S.: See also the updated ChangeLog for all changes since the last ChangeLog from Nov 24, 2003.